halfsie

English

Etymology

half +‎ -sie

Noun

halfsie (plural halfsies)

  1. One whose membership in a group is only through one parent or through a partial commitment.
    • 1976, Susan Berman, Driver, give a soldier a lift, page 110:
      When she was eighteen, she went on a United Synagogue Youth Tour (one hundred and twenty all-Jewish high schoolers and one halfsie).
    • 1992, Leslie Goodman-Malamuth, Robin Margolis, Between Two Worlds:
      Julie says: I am an atheist, although among family and friends I call myself a "halfsie."
    • 2006, Newvoices, page 52:
      A halfsie herself, Sarah has "always been primarily attracted to Jewish men" and felt that JDate would help her narrow down her options.
    • 2008, José L Torres-Padilla, Carmen Haydée Rivera, Writing Off the Hyphen:
      The fact that it does not matter that Julio is a "halfsie" becomes a moot point when we begin to realize that a strict biological and national essentialism cannot operate in a cultural context that is based on the more open social epistemologies that are set in place in Spansih Harlem.

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